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Rhetorical Terms
Retorical Terms test
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English
11th Grade
10/12/2010

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Allegory
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A fictional work in which the characters represent the ideas or concepts
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Aphorism
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A saying or truism. A memory paraphrase
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didactic literature
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Literature or a work designed to instruct
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alliteration
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The repitition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words
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Anaphora
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Repitition of word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row
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Ambiguity
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Uncertai=nty or undefiniteness, state of something being subject to more than one interpretation
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analogy
Definition
Asks reader to think about the correspondane or resemblence of two essentially different things
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anecdote
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A short tale meant to describe something
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Antecedent
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the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers, understood by the context
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Appositive
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A word or phraase that follows a noun/pronoun for emphasis or clarity
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Antithesis
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An oppisition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses
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Juxtaposition
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When two constracting things are places next to eachother for comparision
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Apostrophe
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A figure of speech in which an absent person is addressed by the speaker
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Assonance/conosance
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a type of internal rhyming with vowel sounds repeated
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Asyndeton
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The conjunctions that would normally be connnecting phrases are ommitted
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Polysyndeton
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The use of conjunctions (often 'and')with no commas to seperate a series of items
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Tricolon
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A sentence consisting of three parts of equal length and importance
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Authorial aside
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Literary technique in which the author steps outside the story, speacking directly to the reader to reveal his/her attidude or purpose
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balanced sentence
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a sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parrellell in structure
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Loose sentence
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A sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clauses. seems run on
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Parallel Sentence Structure
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Relies on the use of syntsctical structures in order to develope an aurgument or reemphasize an idea
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Periodic sentence structure
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A sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end
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Complex sentence
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A sentence with an independent clause and at least one dependent clause
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Compound sentence
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A sentence of two or more coordinate independent clauses
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cacophony
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a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds
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colloquialism
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A local or regional dialect expression
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connotation
Definition
A word's emotional content
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denotation
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a word's dictionary defintion
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dramatic irony
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when the reader is aware of an inconsistentcy between a character's perception of a situtatio and the truth
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euphemism
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A mild or pleasant sounding expression that is subsituted for a harsher word
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hyperbole
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a figure of speech in which an exaggeration is used to achieve emphasis
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imagery
Definition
mental pictures conjured by specific words and associations
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Inversion/anastrophe
Definition
Variation of syntactical order
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Situational irony
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When a siuation produces an outcome that is the opposite of what is expected
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
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onomatopeia
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An effect created by words that have sounds that reinforce their meaning
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oxymoron
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combines two contradictory words in one expression. Results are often unusual or thoguht provoking
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pacing narrative
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the speed of a narrative
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Paradox
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A seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth
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Parody
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an effort to ridicule or make fun of something through imitation. Not dat deep
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Persona
Definition
The character created by the voice and narration of the speaker of the text
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pun
Definition
a play on words by using words that have two different meanings
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sarcasm
Definition
stated something to mean the opposite
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satire
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To ridicule or mock in order to reveal a meaning
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speaker
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The speaker of a narration
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Synechdote
Definition
usinga part to represent a whole
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syntax
Definition
the way words are arranged in a sentence
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understament
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When the author assigns less significnce to an event or thing than it deserves.
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unity
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when all parts are related to one central iead
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zeugma
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When in a sentence there are two parts, on literal, one figurative
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